Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Learned Eye -- Biography of Ernst van de Wetering -- Part I: The Work of Art -- In the Beginning There Was Red -- The Use of Wood in Rembrandt's Workshop. Wood Identification and Dendrochronological Analyses -- Rembrandt's Drawing The Raising of the Cross in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- The Portrait of Theodorus Schrevelius -- Part II: The Rules of Art -- The Contours in the Paintings of the Oranjezaal, Huis ten Bosch -- Aelbert Cuyp's Innovative Use of Spatial Devices -- Colour Symbolism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting -- Rembrandt and Rhetoric. The Concepts of affectus, enargeia and ornatus in Samuel van Hoogstraten's Judgement of His Master -- Part III: The Artist's Reputation -- 'A Record and Memorial of his Talents for Posterity': Anthony van Dyck's Sketch of the Garter Procession -- 'Das Werk erdacht und cirkulirt'. The Position of Architects at the Court of King Ferdinand I of Bohemia and His Son, Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria -- Crossing the Wall of History. Etienne Delécluze on the Art and Morality of Jacques-Louis David -- Goltzius, Painting and Flesh -- or, Why Goltzius Began to Paint in 1600 -- Part IV: Painters, Patrons and Art-Lovers -- 'Pour mon honneur et pour vostre contentement': Nicolas Poussin, Paul Fréart de Chantelou and the Making and Collecting of Copies -- Gerard de Lairesse and Jacob de Wit in situ -- 'The Painter he findes at his Easill at worke' -- Bibliography of Ernst van de Wetering -- About the Authors -- Index of Names.